29 JUNE 1956, page 26

Feminine Touch

WHENEVER a young man seeks to demolish completely a person or institution there is usually someone at hand to suck a pipe-stem thoughtfully and ask him to remember that there is......

New Novels John Hersey Is A Documentary Novelist Who, With

one prosaic and one rolling eye, prods the plain facts of every day into an exotic pattern. True, his plain facts are generally in a high- coloured situation, and the flattish......